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Definition of lick noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

lick

noun
 
/lɪk/
 
/lɪk/
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  1. [countable] an act of licking something with the tongue
    • Can I have a lick of your ice cream?
  2. [singular] a lick of paint (informal) a small amount of paint, used to make a place look better
    • What this room needs is a lick of paint.
  3. [countable] (informal) a short piece of music played on a guitar in jazz or pop music
    • a guitar/blues lick
    4. Word OriginOld English liccian, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch likken and German lecken, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek leikhein and Latin lingere.
Idioms
at a (fair) lick
  1. (informal) fast; at a high speed
a lick and a promise
  1. (informal) the act of performing a task quickly and carelessly, especially of washing or cleaning something quickly
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